• 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    There’s a lot to be said for the scale of damage that can be done with something, especially relative to the effort needed to do that damage.

    These days tech companies are doing enormous damage to people’s brains (saturating our dopamine receptors to the point that many people have depression and executive dysfunction) to turn us all into consumption machines that can only find happiness by consuming content and buying commercial products and services.

    Imagine how much more harm they’ll do when they have direct access to our neurons, without even LED pixels as a buffer in between.

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      So regulate the uses of the technology. Don’t ban it outright.

      Those companies are doing their manipulation currently by using the Internet and social media, should the Internet and social media be banned outright? We’re using social media to discuss this right now, that discussion should be suppressed?